Big Boi's song Church will be featured on the EA Games Madden 2004 soundtrack for PS2, GameCube and Xbox.
The game will be out in early August, before Outkast's next album is released!
Music video veteran Bryan Barber (who directed the Skew it on the Bar-b video) will direct an HBO film inspired by the upcoming concept album from Outkast.
The untitled film, which is slated to feature 10 songs, was described by producers as a "'sophistafunk' modern-day renaissance musical" centering on a "surreal love triangle."
The Outkast album, "SpeakerBoxx/The Love Below," featuring one CD of music from member Big Boi and another from his cohort Andre 3000, is set for release on Aug. 19 via Arista Records.
The movie marks the first of six original projects to be written and directed by up-and-coming urban filmmakers for HBO Films. They will be produced by management/production concern Mosaic Media Group.
"This is about finding new and fresh talent and giving them the opportunity in an exceptional forum to present their work," said Mosaic president of production Robert Guralnick . "Mosaic will aggressively be looking for filmmakers for this project."
The six films will air on HBO but could also have a life beyond the small screen.
Barber's has directed videos for Outkast, Queen Latifah, Run-DMC, Jermaine Dupree and Dr. Dre.
Leave it to the groundbreaking, Grammy-winning duo Outkast to come up with a unique project. On the double CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which hits stores Aug. 26, Big Boi and Andre 3000 will solo together. Each has a disc to himself, though each also will appear on the other's side.
"It's going to be funk, funk and more funk, but sophisticated at the same time," says Big Boi, who is featured on Speakerboxxx. "I think it's a natural progression from the last album (2000's Stankonia)."
Andre 3000 says The Love Below (which features Norah Jones on Take Off Your Cool) is a little calmer, but the entire package has the group's signature vibe. He produced four tracks on Speakerboxxx, and Big Boi raps on three songs on The Love Below.
"If you took Outkast and dissected it like you would a scientific frog, you'd be able to see how much we are alike but also how much we are different," says Andre.
The first song to go to radio will be Ghetto Music, which features a Patti LaBelle sample and will appear on Speakerboxxx. The singles Church by Big Boi and She Lives in My Lap by Andre 3000 will hit airwaves Aug. 1, and there will be videos for both.
Lap's video features actress Rosario Dawson, who will star as Andre's love interest in an as-yet-untitled 90-minute musical the duo is doing with video director Brian Barber for HBO.
Columbia Records has pushed up the release date of Beyonce's debut solo album, Dangerously In Love, from July 8 to June 24, due to overwhelming demand and to thwart Internet piracy. The increased demand for the album is being driven by the set's first single, "Crazy In Love," featuring Jay-Z. For the past two weeks, the track has been the Number One most added record and greatest airplay gainer on urban, crossover, rhythm, and top 40 radio formats.
Beyonce wrote and produced most of the album's material, and she collaborated with top notch artists and producers such as Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Sean Paul, Mark Batson, Mario Winans, D-Roy & Mr. B, and of course, OutKast's Big Boi...
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